Japan Foundation Research Fellow, Kyoto University; MA Philosophy, University of Ottawa; Bachelor of Humanities, Carleton University Dissertation: Nishitani's Notion of Realization as a Return to the Everyday

Research Interests: Buddhist philosophy, 19th and 20th century German philosophy, critical theory

Email:melanie.coughlin [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Melanie Coughlin)

Emily R. Douglas

B.A. University of Alberta 2012 (Philosophy, French minor) ; M.A. University of Alberta 2014

B.A. in political science and philosophy (Université de Montréal); M.A. in philosophy (Université de Montréal)

Research interests: Contemporary political philosophy, history of political ideas, pluralism, minority and collective rights, ethics

Email: %20eliot.litalien [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Éliot Litalien)

Renxiang Liu

BSc Chemistry (Peking University), MPhil Philosophy of Science and Technology (Peking University, thesis: "The permanent presence of reality and the recall of technology: a critical study on representationalism")

Research Interests: Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty) with a focus on notions of authenticity, expression and temporality; philosophy of perception and memory; Hegel; Nietzsche; existentialism in literature (Dostoevsky, Kafka, Thomas Mann); psychoanalysis; intellectual history of early modern science

Email: renxiang.liu [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Renxiang Liu)

Andre Martin

BA Honours Philosophy, MA Philosophy (Toronto)

Research Interests: Philosophy of mind and metaphysics in medieval and contemporary philosophy